B-52 Superfortress/Related Articles: Difference between revisions

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Bomber aircraft [r]: Airplanes optimized to deliver weapons to surface targets, rather than to fight other airplanes. ^[e]
Eighth Air Force [r]: The organization currently "owning" the bombers, information operations, and most intelligence aircraft of the United States Air Force; it conducted strategic bombing against Germany in the Second World War ^[e]

Anderson Air Force Base [r]: A major United States Air Force base on the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam; a major launching site for ARC LIGHT and Operation Linebacker II B-52 bombers in the Vietnam War; forward base for B-2 Spirit stealth bombers operating in the Western Pacific ^[e]
Barksdale Air Force Base [r]: United States Air Force base in Arkansas, having the headquarters of the Eighth Air Force, commanding strategic bombers, and one of the two B-52 bomber wings ^[e]
Diego Garcia [r]: The largest island of the Chagos Islands, British Indian Ocean Territory (B.I.O.T.), which has had all native inhabitants removed, and is a major U.S. military base; it is the base for a prepositioning ship squadron and a forward base for bomber aircraft and air refueling tankers ^[e]
Minot Air Force Base [r]: Located in North Dakota, it is one of two United States Air Force bases with a B-52 bomber wing, and is administratively under the Eighth Air Force. It also hosts the 91st Space Wing of LGM-30 Minuteman long-range ballistic missiles ^[e]

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